There are about 8563 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Sweden. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
This randomized controlled trial aims to recruit a total of 320 dyads composed by persons with dementia living in community settings and their primary informal caregivers. In the intervention group, persons with dementia will have a home monitoring kit installed in the household while participants in the control group will receive their usual care. The kit includes home leaving sensors, smoke and water leak sensors, bed sensors as well as automatic lights that monitor the individual's behavior. Alerts (text message and/or phone call) will be sent to the caregiver if anything unusual occurs. All study participants will receive three home visits by project administrators that have received project specific training in order to harmonize data collection. These will take place at enrollment and 3 and 12 months following installation of the home kits. At every home visit, a standardized questionnaire will be administered to all study participants to assess their health, quality of life and resource utilization. The primary outcome of this trial is the amount of informal care support provided by primary informal caregivers to the Person with Dementia.
Hypotension will often complicate induction of anaesthesia. The investigators want to test the hypothesis that Target Controlled Infusion, as opposed to Velocity Controlled Infusion, leads to less degree of hypotension.
In this study, glycosaminoglycan (GAG) profiling in subjects diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is hypothesized to be useful in monitoring drug response and predict radiological response. To this end, glycosaminoglycan scores based on longitudinal samples of plasma and urine in prospectively enrolled patients will be correlated to radiological response to first-line therapy based on current standard-of-care. A positive correlation indicates that glycosaminoglycan scores can successfully detect patients that are not responding to treatment before the scheduled follow-up in which radiological imaging is performed. Data on the extent of metastasis (number of metastatic sites) will be collected to assess whether glycosaminoglycans correlate accordingly.
In this study, a score based on glycosaminoglycan (GAG) profiling in subjects with suspicion of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is hypothesized to distinguish malignant masses when early actionable clinical decisions are desirable. For example to diagnose early recurrence after surgical treatment; to screen population at risk of RCC; or to distinguish benign masses from RCC before surgical treatment. To this end, plasma and urine GAGs will be measured in a prospective cohort of patients referred to surgical treatment for RCC. The resulting GAG scores are then correlated to post-surgical recurrence, to post-surgical definitive diagnosis and and to tumor size if RCC. In a subset cohort of patients at high risk of RCC recurrence, plasma and urine GAGs will be monitored to observe its correlation with disease recurrence.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the frequency and grade of gastrointestinal dysfunction in patients after thoracic cardiovascular surgery, and to search for biomarkers of gastrointestinal dysfunction. All adult patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass at Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden, are asked for participation in this study. All participating patients sign informed consent at the inclusion. The first three postoperative days the function of the gastrointestinal tract is scored according to a rating scale (grade 0-4), along with other clinical parameters. Plasma blood samples are collected from each patient preoperatively and the first three postoperative days. The plasma samples are stored in a biobank for later determination of plasma proteins. In the analysis, the patients are divided according to the gastrointestinal rating scale and the plasma protein expression, gastrointestinal complications and all-cause mortality are compared between the groups.
The inhibitory effect of low dose GLP-1 is investigated on prandial motility of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum in vivo in humans. Supplementary in vitro studies on the mechanism of action of the GLP-1 inhibition of motility as carried out on muscle strips from the upper gastrointestinal tract in man.
Glaucoma is a complex and chronic eye disease which damages the optic nerve. One of the main risk factors for the progression of glaucoma is IOP. The aim of the study is to examine if Salovum, an anti-secretory factor (AF), can reduce the level of the intraocular pressure (IOP) in the eye of patients affected by glaucoma. Anti-secretory factor (AF) is an endogenous protein which controls the transport of water and ions across the cell membrane. AF plays an important part in the immune system and has an anti-secretory and anti-inflammatory effect. The investigators' hypothesis is that Salovum can restore a normal salt-water balance in the eye, which in turn would lower the IOP. This would eliminate or reduce the risk of subsequent visual impairments/neurological damage.
This study will evaluate the role of addition of an anti-angiogenic agent (Nintedanib/placebo) to conventional combination chemotherapy as concomitant and maintenance treatment in primary advanced or with first relapse of endometrial cancer.
The main purpose of this project is to further explore the metabolic effects and the mechanisms underlying the improvement in glucose homeostasis following bariatric surgery. The project will involve both prevention and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and both pre-diabetic as well as diabetic subjects with obesity will be included. This part of the project focuses on patients with manifest T2D and they will be assigned to surgical and non-surgical intervention, respectively, in a strictly controlled and randomized manner.
The purpose of this study is to find out if subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have signs of accelerated ageing in their airways.